Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Rainer Bauböck (auth.), Michi Messer, Renee Schroeder, Ruth Wodak (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 360
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume covers the most important contributions to and discussions at the international symposium Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (1-3, July, University of Vienna), organised by Renée Schroeder and Ruth Wodak which was dedicated to the multiple interdisciplinary dimensions of ‘migrations’, both from the viewpoints of the Social Sciences and Humanities as well as from the manifold perspectives of the Natural Sciences. The book is organized along the following dimensions:

Urban Development and Migration

Peer Relations in Immigrant Adolescents: Methodological Challenges and Key Findings

Migration, Identity, and Belonging

Migration in/and Ego Documents

Debating Migration

Fundamentals of Diffusion and Spread in the Natural Sciences and beyond

Media Representations of Migrants and Migration

Migration and the Genes

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Constellations and Transitions: Combining Macro and Micro Perspectives on Migration and Citizenship....Pages 3-14
The Role of the Press in the Reproduction of Racism....Pages 15-29
The Migration Imaginary and the Politics of Personhood....Pages 31-41
Multilingualism, Heterogeneity and the Monolingual Policies of the Linguistic Integration of Migrants....Pages 43-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Peer Relations Among Immigrant Adolescents: Methodological Challenges and Key Findings....Pages 57-65
Methodological Challenges in an Immigrant Study in Norway....Pages 67-77
Bullying and Victimization in Ethnically Diverse Schools....Pages 79-88
Aggressive Behaviour in Native, First- and Second-Generation Immigrant Youth: Testing Inequality Constrained Hypotheses....Pages 89-98
Friendship Homophily Among Children and Youth in Multicultural Classes....Pages 99-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Migration, Identity, and Belonging: Anthropological Perspectives on a Multidisciplinary Field of Research....Pages 113-116
Transnational Belonging, Non-ethnic Forms of Identification and Diverse Mobilities: Rethinking Migrant Integration?....Pages 117-128
“It’s Like Belonging to a Place That Has Never Been Yours.” Deportees Negotiating Involuntary Immobility and Conditions of Return in Cape Verde....Pages 129-140
Violence, Memory, and Vietnamese-Irish Identity....Pages 141-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Ego Documents Entered Migration History....Pages 155-159
Wrapped-Up Memory: Things and Their Order in the Estate of Martha Teichmann (Saxony/New York, 1888–1977)....Pages 161-174
“My Dearest Love…” Love, Longing, and Desire in International Migration....Pages 175-186
A Worker Writes His Life: Narrative Strategies of an Austro-Hungarian Migrant to the United States....Pages 187-201
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
The Discursive Construction of “Migrants and Migration”....Pages 205-212
Migration in Archaeology: An Overview with a Focus on Ancient Egypt....Pages 213-226
The Ambivalence of Migration in Early Modern Thought: Comments on an Intellectual History of Human Mobility....Pages 227-237
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Migrations and Conquest: Easy Pictures for Complicated Backgrounds in Ancient and Medieval Structures....Pages 239-248
Immigrants and Parasites: The History of a Bio-social Metaphor....Pages 249-258
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Fundamentals of Diffusion and Spread in the Natural Sciences and Beyond....Pages 261-266
The Spread of Ragweed as a Diffusion Process....Pages 267-274
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
Media and Migration: Exploring the Field....Pages 277-282
Dynamics of Representation in Discourse: Immigrants in the British Press....Pages 283-295
Humanitarian Discourse Legitimating Migration Control: FRONTEX Public Communication....Pages 297-308
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Migration and the Genes....Pages 311-314
Modern Human Migrations: The First 200,000 Years....Pages 315-326
Migration and the Origin of Species....Pages 327-339
Back Matter....Pages 341-358

✦ Subjects

Migration